Sarah Stillman: The use and abuse of civil forfeiture.

On a bright Thursday afternoon in 2007, Jennifer Boatright, a waitress at a Houston bar-and-grill, drove with her two young sons and her boyfriend, Ron Henderson, on U.S. 59 toward Linden, Henderson’s home town, near the Texas-Louisiana border. They made the trip every April, at . . .

via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_stillman